War on Iraq IQ Test

by Rev. Jeremiah Wright

Take the War on Iraq IQ Test

Do you know enough to justify
going to war with Iraq?

1. Q: What percentage of the world's population
does the U.S. have?
A: 6%
[correction - 4.8% of world's population - 6.2 billion vs. 280
million]

2. Q: What percentage of the world's wealth
does the U.S. have?
A: 50%
[correction - 22% of global GDP]

3. Q: Which country has the largest oil
reserves?
A: Saudi Arabia

4. Q: Which country has the second largest
oil reserves?
A: Iraq

5. Q: How much is spent on military budgets
a year worldwide?
A: $900+ billion

6. Q: How much of this is spent by the
U.S.?
A: 50%
[explanation - military expenditures for FY2003 may be $460-470
billion including $378.5 billion for the Pentagon, $15.4 billion
for nuclear weapons programs, $3.8 billion for foreign military
assistance, $1.4 billion for military-related activities of other
agencies, $32 billion for military retirement benefits and health
care for current employees, $30 billion for the CIA, plus funding
for the Homeland Security Department]

7. Q: What percent of US military spending
would ensure the essentials of life to everyone in the world,
according the UN?
A: 10% (that's about $40 billion, the amount of funding initially
requested to fund our retaliatory attack on Afghanistan)

8. Q: How many people have died in wars
since World War II?
A: 86 million

9. Q: How long has Iraq had chemical and
biological weapons?
A: Since the early 1980's.

10. Q: Did Iraq develop these chemical
& biological weapons on their own?
A: No, the materials and technology were supplied by the US government,
along with Britain and private corporations.

11. Q: Did the US government condemn the
Iraqi use of gas warfare against Iran?
A: No

12. Q: How many people did Saddam Hussein
kill using gas in the Kurdish town ofHalabja
in 1988?
A: 5,000

13. Q: How many western countries condemned
this action at the time?
A: 0

14. Q: How many gallons of agent Orange
did America use in Vietnam?
A: 17 million.

15. Q: Are there any proven links between
Iraq and September 11th terrorist attack?
A: No

16. Q: What is the estimated number of
civilian casualties in the Gulf War?
A: 35,000

17. Q: How many casualties did the Iraqi
military inflict on the western forces during the Gulf War ?
A: 0

18. Q: How many retreating Iraqi soldiers
were buried alive by U. S. tanks with ploughs mounted on the front?
A: 6,000

19. Q: How many tons of depleted uranium
were left in Iraq and Kuwait after the Gulf War?
A: 40 tons

20. Q: What according to the UN was the
increase in cancer rates in Iraq between 1991 and 1994?
A: 700%

21. Q: How much of Iraq's military capacity
did America claim it had destroyed in 1991?
A: 80%

22. Q: Is there any proof that Iraq plans
to use its weapons for anything other than deterrence and self-defense?
A: No

23. Q: Does Iraq present more of a threat
to world peace now than 10 years ago?
A: No

24. Q: How many civilian deaths has the
Pentagon predicted in the event of an attack on Iraq in 2003?
A: 10,000

25. Q: What percentage of these will be
children?
A: Over 50%

26. Q: How many years has the U.S. engaged
in air strikes on Iraq?
A: 11 years

27. Q: Were the U.S and the UK at war
with Iraq between December 1998 andSeptember
1999?
A: No

28. Q: How many pounds of explosives were
dropped on Iraq between December 1998 and September 1999?
A: 20 million

29. Q: How many years ago was UN Resolution
661 introduced, imposing strict sanctions on Iraq's imports and
exports?
A: 12 years

30. Q: What was the child death rate in
Iraq in 1989 (per 1,000 births)?
A: 38

31. Q: What was the estimated child death
rate in Iraq in 1999 (per 1,000births)?
A: 131 (that's an increase of 345%)

Q: How many Iraqis are estimated to have
died by October 1999 as a result of UNsanctions?
A: 1.5 million

33. Q: How many Iraqi children are estimated
to have died due to sanctions since 1997?
A: 750,000

34. Q: Did Saddam order the inspectors
out of Iraq?
A: No

35. Q: How many inspections were there
in November and December 1998?
A:300

36. Q: How many of these inspections had
problems?
A:5

37. Q: Were the weapons inspectors allowed
entry to the Ba'ath Party HQ?
A: Yes

38. Q: Who said that by December 1998,
Iraq had in fact, been disarmed to a level unprecedented in modern
history.
A: Scott Ritter, UNSCOM chief.

39. Q: In 1998 how much of Iraq's post
1991 capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction did the UN
weapons inspectors claim to have discovered and dismantled?
A: 90%